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Pre-K Journals
By chris

Sounds good to me! This way, you can also document the students developing writing skills by keeping everything together in one book (squiggly lines eventually turn into semi-recognizable letters!). I offer the following
suggestions, from experience:
Date each page so you can keep track of their progress as mentioned above; great for meetings with parents when you can show concrete "progress". You can try to have the students do this themselves from your example, or you may want to consider investing in a date stamp.
Young children (even young grammer school children)will just "open the book" to

ANY page & start to write. My 2nd graders often "lost" stories they had started writing by using this method. They would lose precious writing time going through their books page by page looking for it! I suggest that you cut the upper right corner off of each page as it is used & teach the children to use this to find a "clean page". It saved US lots of frustration when we started using this method!
Another thing: Can't you have parents provide spiral notebooks, rather than investing your own $$$? Or at least put it against your room expense account, assuming you have one!
Good Luck!